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Volume II. Number XI, 



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BREUCKELEN. 

By HARRINGTON PUTNAM. 

THE original settlements which came to be 
known as Breuckelen were but a small 
part of the present Borough of Brooklyn. The 
forested river-front of Long Island, rising over 
against New Amsterdam, was still covered 
with rich and abundant timber long after a 
considerable village was planted on the lower 
part of Manhattan Island. The Holland and 
Belgium folk, reared in the level and treeless 
lowlands, were by no means eager to under- 
take the severe and unaccustomed labor of 
forest-clearing.' On Long Island they seem to 
have been first drawn to the flats having a 
light surface soil, which had received some 
rude cultivation in the Indian maize-fields, and 
required little preparation for the plow. 

What was called Breuckelen was not the 
locality of their first settlements. The first 
grant of land, in what was afterwards the 
city limits of Brooklyn, appears to have been 



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to William Adriaense Bennett and Jacques 
Bentyn, who in 1636 purchased from the In- 
dian sachem Kti a considerable tract at Go- 
wanus, on which a house was erected, only 
to be destroyed in the Indian wars of 1643.' 
Long afterwards the fame of Gowanus oysters 
and wild turkeys was carried home to Hol- 
land. The Labadist travellers who came there 
in 1679 said of these oysters that "they are 
large and full, some of them not less than a 
foot long." ^ The shells were burned for lime. 
The supply of oysters remained abundant 
enough afterwards for great quantities to be 
pickled and exported to Barbadoes. 

Where the East River made an abrupt bend 
to the north, leaving a wide shallow cove on 
the Long Island shore, the Dutch soon noticed 
good land sloping gradually down into the 
meadows surrounding the water. This was 
called the Waal-boght, and is the present site 
of the Navy Yard. Two derivations of this 
name are advanced. It was thought to have 
been thus styled to mean the Bay of the Wal- 
loons, since afterwards many French families 
settled there, and it was then known as the 
Walloon quarter." The term Waal, however, 
means a basin or inner harbor, and boght a 
bend. Hence the word may have signified 
" the bend of the inner harbor," like a similar 
place called Waal-boght in the city of Amster- 
dam." This name was sometimes abridged as 



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Waal, or the Wale. On the faith of old family 
traditions, it was long and confidently asserted 
that on the shores of this bay was born the 
first child of Dutch settlers on Long Island. 
This claim of priority for the Waal-boght set- 
tlement is not established. 

Joris Jansen de Rapalje, a Huguenot who 
had married Catelyna Trico of Paris, and had 
resided at Fort Orange and later had an inn at 
New Amsterdam, eventually came to live in a 
farm on the Waal-boght. The purchase was 
made on June 16, 1637.° It was their eldest 
daughter Sarah who was erroneously claimed 
to have been born on Long Island before 1630. 
After the English conquest, Catelyna's hus- 
band died, and she lived on at the Waal-boght 
— the mother of Brooklyn — affectionately ab- 
sorbed in her eleven children and their de- 
scendants, who in 1679 already numbered one 
hundred and forty-five. A visitor, who then 
saw her, described her as devoted with her 
whole soul to her progeny. "Nevertheless 
she lived alone by herself, a little apart from 
the others, having her little garden and other 
conveniences which she took care of herself." ' 
Her house was probably near the present site 
of the United States Marine Hospital. When 
Governor Dongan wished to establish, as a 
fact, that the earliest settlements in the direc- 
tion of the Delaware were Dutch, he had re- 
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In 1684, she was summoned before his Excel- 
lency, and was apparently still vivacious, as 
she gave her deposition. Describing her 
arrival here in 1623, she delighted to relate 
that: " Fouer women came along with her in 
the same shipp, in which the Governor Arian 
Jarissen came also over, which fouer women 
were married at sea,"' and afterwards with 
their husbands were sent to the Delaware. 

In 1688, she made another affidavit at her 
house "in ye Wale." Recalling the bitter 
struggle with Indians on Long Island and 
Manhattan, she pleasantly alluded to her pre- 
vious life with them, for three years at Fort 
Orange, "all of which time ye s? Indians 
were all quiet as Lambs & came & traded 
with all ye freedom imaginable." ' 

About 1642, the public ferry was established 
between Manhattan and Long Island. The 
landing-places were at Peck's Slip in Manhat- 
tan, and at the present foot of Fulton Street 
on Long Island. A collection of houses soon 
gathered about the Long Island landing, which 
little settlement became known as "The 
Ferry." Southward from the Ferry and along 
the present Heights and East River shore ex- 
tended the farms of Claes Cornelissen van 
Schouw, Jan Manje, Andries Hudde, Jacob 
Wolphertsen, Frederic Lubbertsen '"; and ex- 
Governor Van Twiller had himself taken a 
grant of Roode-Hoek, so called from its rich 



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red soil." It is difficult now to retrace this line 
of the water-front, so greatly has the filling-in 
of Atlantic Docks changed the contour of the 
shore. Red Hook appears to have contained 
about fifty acres, raised up somewhat above 
the surrounding meadows. This small prom- 
ontory projected out to the westward, and to 
the north of it the shore-line receded inland in 
marshes towards Gowanus. On some of these 
farm grants there were slight improvements ; 
others were long allowed to remain unculti- 
vated. 

The Indian wars of 1643, begun on Manhat- 
tan, also extended to Long Island. The white 
settlers appear to have been the aggressors. 
The retaliation of the red tribes devastated 
many of the bouweries. In the end, the In- 
dians were driven from their maize-fields, 
which left attractive sites for habitation, where 
the new settlers founded a small compact 
hamlet instead of occupying disconnected 
farms. 

Following the main road (now Fulton Street) 
from the Ferry about a mile, the settlers took 
up the lands between the Waal-boght and 
Gowanus Kill, in the vicinity of what are now 
Fulton, Hoyt, and Smith Streets. The best 
parts of this new territory were taken up by 
Jan Evertsen Bout, Huyck Aertsen, Jacob Stoff- 
elsen, Pieter Cornelissen, and Joris Dircksen." 
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mended that the colonists should establish 
themselves " in towns, villages, and hamlets, 
as the English are in the habit of doing. " 
These settlers gladly availed themselves of this 
advice, and notified the Colonial Council that 
they desired to "found a town at their own 
expense." This they called Breuckelen, after 
the ancient village of that name on the Vecht, 
in the province of Utrecht. 

The Governor and Council responded 
promptly and confirmed their proceedings 
in June, 1646. No municipal or local liberties 
were, however, conferred as in New England. 
The first government grant to this town was 
merely a ratification of the election of Schepens, 
and declaration of their authority, as follows: 



"We, William Kieft, Director General, and the Council 
residing in New Netherland, on behalf of the High and 
Mighty Lords States-General of the United Netherlands, 
His Highness of Orange, and the Honorable Directors of the 
General Incorporated West India Company, To all those 
who shall see these presents or hear them read, Greeting : 

" Whereas, Jan Evertsen Bout and Huyck Aertsen from 
Rossum were on the 2 1 st May last unanimously chosen by 
those interested of Breuckelen, situate on Long Island, as 
Schepens, to decide all questions which may arise, as they 
shall deem proper, according to the Exemptions of New 
Netherland granted to particular Colonies, which election is 
subscribed by them, with express stipulation that if any one 
refuse to submit in the premises aforesaid to the above-men- 
tioned Jan Evertsen and Huyck Aertsen, he shall forfeit the 
right he claims to land in the allotment of Breuckelen, and 
in order that everything may be done with more autJiority, 



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We, the Director and Council aforesaid, have therefore 
authorized and appointed, and do hereby authorize the said 
Jan Evertsen and Huyck Aertsen to be schepens of Breucke- 
len ; and in case Jan Evertsen and Huyck Aertsen do here- 
after find the labor too onerous, they shall be at liberty to 
select two more from among the inhabitants of Breuckelen 
to adjoin them to themselves. We charge and command 
every inhabitant of Breuckelen to acknowledge and respect 
the above-mentioned Jan Evertsen and Huyck Aertsen as 
their schepens, and if any one shall be found to exhibit con- 
tumaciousness towards them, he shall forfeit his share as 
above stated. This done in Council in Fort Amsterdam in 
New Netlierland." '^ 



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Later, on December i, the authorities gave 
Breuckelen a schout or constable, and Jan 
Teunissen was thus appointed, who had been 
already acting as such for some months be- 
fore his formal commission. 

The origin of these settlers has not been 
definitely traced to the village of Breuckelen, 
or to within the jurisdiction of the city of 
Utrecht. The French wars there, and the 
Revolutionary war here, have despoiled both 
Breuckelens of their earliest records. The 
nomenclature of the little towns on Long Is- 
land, however, cannot be regarded as acci- 
dental. The association of the names of three 
hamlets into a triangle, generally similar to the 
position of the same names in Holland, is a 
clear proof of the attachment of the colonists 
to their natal district, between Utrecht and 
the Zuider Zee. Similar associations appeared 



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at the same lime in the new villages to the 
east of Breuckelen and on the Sound. From 
the province of Zealand the wish was shown 
to perpetuate home towns in the names of 
Vliessingen (Flushing) and Middelburg (New- 
town). The identity of village names, and 
similarity of the relative sites in the neighbor- 
hood of Breuckelen to those in the fatherland, 
are illustrated by two maps from new and old 
Netherlands. 



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Nieu Utrecht 

Amersfoort 

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Amersfoort, Breuckelen, and Utrecht have 
many historic associations. To the politician 
and reader of Motley, they are forever linked 
with the career and tragic end of Barneveld. 
In 1619, he fell a martyr to the cause of state 
rights and local self-government. Such an 
event, comparatively recent in 1646, and still 
appealing to the sense of individual liberty, 



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may have been recalled by the settlers in 
America. While the liberties of Utrecht had 
been the cherished objects of Barneveld's so- 
licitude, he proudly claimed his birth in Amers- 
foort. '* In moments of arduous public labor he 
looked hopefully forward to an honorable and 
calm retirement from the tumults of party strife 
to his beautiful estate at Guntersteijn in the vil- 
lage of BreuckelenJ' Breuckelen, however, 
was an ancient village three centuries before 



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the settlement in New Netherlands. Located 
between Utrecht and Amsterdam, it was early 
noted for its healthfulness, which soon made 
it a desirable residence region. The surround- 
ing fields and foliage are strikingly green and 
luxuriant, even for Holland. Castles grew up 
about it along the banks of the beautiful Vecht, 
which all the successive tides of war have not 
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In the Dutch records, Breuckelen had various 
spellings, as Broklede, Broicklede, Brackola, 
Brocklandia, and Broeckland. Hence some 
say that the name came from its brooks and 
marshes — van de drassige en broekactige veen- 
landeii — meaning a brook or marsh land." It 
is mentioned as an important place in the year 
13 1 7. There were two parishes on opposite 
sides of the Vecht. These are Breuckelen- 
Nijenrode, from the castle of Nijenrode, and 
Breuckelen-St. Pieters. The small river Vecht 
dividing these towns may be considered an 
outlet of the Rhine, which parts in two chan- 
nels at Utrecht. The Vecht turns to the north 
and emipties into the Zuider Zee. It is navig- 
able for small vessels, and at Breuckelen is a 
little over two hundred feet wide. 

The old country-seats along the Vecht, once 
set in the prim, geometric gardens of the 
last century, are now represented by modern 
villas, half hidden by trees, which to-day form 
bits of unmatched rural scenery. Eminent 
landscape painters of the modern Dutch 
school have loved to make studies amid these 
gentle windings, and the celebrity of the 
Vecht in art bids fair to surpass the forgotten 
fame of the neighboring castles. Old draw- 
bridges of wood cross the sluggish river. 
Trees come close to the tow-path, bordered 
by quaint gardens. Along the garden edges, 
looking out upon the stream, are Koepels or 



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tea-houses, and over all this abundant foliage 
rises a church spire. 

From the fifteenth century the village had a 
coat of arms. The crown imports a royal grant, 
but from whom and whence is not known. 



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The castles of Nijenrode and Oud-aa are 
admittedly ancient. Indeed, what is now 
Breuckelen-Nijenrode was once a fief of the 
lords of Nijenrode. 

The settlers on Long Island generally re- 
produced in wood with thatched roofs the 
more solid stone cottages of the fotherland. 
They were mostly of one story, with a garret 
above. Their fireplaces and chimneys were 
stone to the height of about six feet, with 
great ovens alongside. Above the stone they 
carried up the chimneys with wood plastered 
thick with mortar inside." But few stone 
houses were built before the English con- 
quest. Travellers visiting such homes were 
cheered with good fires, which they noted 
were of clear oak and hickory, of which there 



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was no scruple to burn with lavish hospitality. 
The openings of the huge fireplaces were 
often large enough to seat the family on both 
sides of the fire, without jambs. A dwelling, 
sometimes with the barn also, was encircled 
with strong palisades as a defense against 
Indians. An institution in the better houses 
was the betste, which was a closed-in bed- 
stead, built into the house like a cupboard, 
having doors, which shut up the low bunk in 
the daytime. Other houses had a simple 
slaap-banck, or sleeping-bench, in the room, 
on which a great feather bed lay in state. 

The plantation and farms about Breuckelen, 
besides their ordinary farm produce, cultivated 
great fields of tobacco. Some of the best ex- 
ported from the American colonies grew on 
the plantations about the Waal-boght. Later, 
it is recorded that cotton was successfully 
raised in Breuckelen, although only for home 
use, to be woven with native wool." 

Upon the arrival of Governor Stuyvesant in 
New Netherlands in 1647, he was obliged to 
allow an election to be had, so that there 
should be popular representation in the Coun- 
cil. New Amsterdam, Breuckelen, Amers- 
foort, Midwout (Flatbush), and other places, 
elected eighteen of the " most notable, reason- 
able, honest, and respectable " among them, 
from whom the Governor chose nine, as an Ad- 
visory Council. In this body Breuckelen was 



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represented by its founder and schepen, Jan ipoutics in 
Evertsen Bout. In the subsequent dissatis- ^reucheien 
faction with the authority assumed by the 
Governor in 1653, and the public conventions 
and remonstrances, Breuckelen took promin- 
ent part, being represented by Frederic Lub- 
bertsen, Paulen van der Beeck, and William 
Beekman, whose maintenance of the rights 
of the people specially irritated the jealous 
Governor. Breuckelen, Amersfoort, and Mid- 
wout were specially ordered to prohibit their 
residents from attending any meeting at New 
Amsterdam. 

After peace had been declared between 
England and Holland in i6s4, enlarged local 
powers were granted, and two new schepens 
given to Breuckelen. A like increase was con- 
ferred on the magistracies of Amersfoort and 
Midwout, and a superior district court for the 
three villages was established. This conferred 
important political privileges. It gave the 
people rights of local jurisdiction and that right 
of representation for which they had con- 
tended in 1653." 

A citizen of Breuckelen could not refuse to 
continue to hold public office. In 1654, Jan 
Evertsen Bout declined to act as schepen. He 
incautiously said he would rather go back to 
Holland than continue to perform such burden- 
some duties. No excuses regarding his private 
business were accepted. Though the schepen- 



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elect had served for previous terms, and filled 
other colonial offices, he was not now allowed 
to retire. The sheriff was formally ordered to 
notify him of these summary commands of 
Governor Stuyvesant: "if you will not accept 
to serve as schepen for the welfare of the Vil- 
lage of Breuckelen with others, your fellow- 
residents, then you must prepare yourself to 
sail in the ship King Solomon, for Holland, 
agreeably to your utterance." '" This appeal 
to the civic conscience of one who had been 
prominent as a reformer, coupled with the 
grim threat of deportation, was irresistible. No 
further declinations in Breuckelen offices seem 
to have troubled the Council. 

The first church in the present territory 
was started at Midwout (Flatbush), the 
building of which was begun in 1654. Before 
the people of Breuckelen would promise to 
contribute to the support of the domine, they 
solicited "with reverence" that the Rev. 
Mr. Polhemus might be allowed to preach in 
Breuckelen and Midwout alternately. The 
Council cautiously assented, declaring they 
had no objection that the Reverend Polhemus, 
"when the weather permits shall preach al- 
ternately at both places."^' 

This met serious objection from the people 
of Amersfoort and Gravesend, who pointed 
out that "as Breuckelen is quite two hours' 
walking from Amersfoort and Gravesend, it 



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was impossible for them to attend church in 
the morning, and return home at noon. So 
they consider it a hardship to choose, to hear 
the Gospel but once a day, or to be compelled 
to travel four hours in going and returning all 
for one single sermon — which would be to 
some very troublesome, and to some utterly 
impossible." " The Council finally settled the 
difficulty by directing that the morning ser- 
mon be at Midwout, and that instead of the 
customary afternoon service, an evening dis- 
course be preached alternately at Midjvout 
and Breuckelen. It was not till 1660, that 
Breuckelen had a church and domine of its 
own, the Rev. Henricus Selyns, who was of 
a distinguished Amsterdam family. He la- 
bored successfully for four years, then returned 
to Holland ; came out again eighteen years 
later, was enthusiastically welcomed, and set- 
tled in New York. His Latin poem eulogistic 
of Cotton Mather's great work is printed in 
later editions of the Magnalm."^ 

After the settled pastor, came the school- 
master. He, too, was a learned and distin- 
guished man — Carel de Beauvois, an educated 
French Protestant from Leyden, who was 
appointed in Breuckelen in 1661, and was 
also required to perform the offices of court 
messenger, precentor {voorsanger), "ring the 
bell, and do whatever else is required." 

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families amounting to one hundred and thirty- 
four persons. It may be doubted if any ham- 
let of its size in the entire American colonies 
was favored with better spiritual guides, or 
more learned and helpful teachers — a preemi- 
nence in school and in pulpit that Brooklyn- 
ites may well endeavor to keep. Thereafter 
the growth of the village was steady and 
uneventful. English settlers came into the 
neighboring towns of Gravesend, Jamaica, and 
Flushing, but not without friction with their 
Dutch neighbors. 

On a morning of August, 1664, a British 
fleet, unannounced, anchored in Gravesend 
Bay. Staten Island was first seized. A body 
of New England volunteers came through the 
Sound, landed on Long Island, and encamped 
near the Ferry. Governor Stuyvesant indig- 
nantly declined to yield. A part of the fleet 
came up the East River and landed more 
troops below Breuckelen. Governor Stuy- 
vesant's historic "I would rather be carried 
out dead " than surrender, was at last over- 
borne by the entreaties of the women and 
children. On September 8, 1664, Governor 
Nicolls raised the flag of England on the Fort, 
and named New Amsterdam, New York. 
Long Island and Staten Island, and probably 
Westchester, were made an English "shire." 
After passing through various phases of Dutch 
spelling, Breuckelen became Brockland, Brock- 



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lin, Brookline, and at last Brooklyn, in the 
West Riding of Yorkshire. 

In 1683, when the counties of Kings and 
Queens were established, the settlement of 
Newtown was detached from the West Rid- 
ing and made part of Queens County, leav- 
ing Kings County with its present territory. 
In 1816, Brooklyn became an incorporated vil- 
lage, which grew to the dignity of a city in 
1834. Williamsburg was united with Brook- 
lyn in 185',, followed by the absorption of the 
towns of Kings County in 1886 and 1894. In 
the consolidation with New York in 1897 this 
enlarged municipality, embracing all the 
county of Kings, has now become the Bor- 
ough of Brooklyn. 



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REFERENCES. 




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Stiles, Hist. Brooklyn, i., p. 23 ; also see lease of 


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land in Breuckelen, August i, 1647, ^or four years, 
rent free, tenant to cut, bum, and remove the timber, 
but at liberty to leave the stumps. — Doc. Col. Hist. 
o/N. Y., vol. xiv., p. 75. 




2 


Stiles, Hist. Brooklyn, i., p. 49. 




3 


Jounml of Voyage to New Nethcrland — Collections, 
L. I. Hist. Soc, vol. i., p. 123. 




4 


O'Callaghan, Hist. New Netherland, i., p. 101. 




s 


Literary World (N. Y.), May 20, 1848, p. 509. 




6 


Doc. Col. Hist. N. Y., vol. xiv,, p. 4. 




7 


Journal of Voyage to New Nethcrland, p. 342. 




8 


Stiles, Hist., i., appendix, p. 413. 




9 


Stiles, Hist., i., appendix, p. 414. 




lO 

1 1 


Stiles, Hist., i., chap. ii. 

Doc. Col. Hist. N. Y., vol. xiv., p. 48. 




I 2 


Doc. Col. Hist. N. Y., vol. xiv., pp. 60, 64, 6s, etc. 




I ; 


Stiles, Hist., \., pp. 45, 46. 




'4 


Motley, John of Barneveld, ii., p. 229 (ed. London, 

■ S7S). 
Ibid., ii., p. 185. 




15 




16 


Kabinet van Nedcrlandsche en Klecfsche Oudheden, 
by Mattheus B. van Nidek, Isaac le Long, J. H. 
Reisig, and others, p. 262, Amsterdam, 1793. 




■7 


Stiles, Hist. Brooklyn, i., p. 222. 




1 8 


Stiles, Hist., i., p. 2;2. 




'9 


Stiles, Hist., i., p. no. 




20 


Doc. Col. Hist. N. Y., vol. xiv., p. 235. 




21 


Stiles, Hist.,\., p. 129. 




22 


Stiles, Hist., i., p. 130. 




2_^ 


Magnalia, vol. i., pp. 20, 21 (Hartford, 1820). The 

poem ends as follows : 

"Tu dilecte Deo, cujus Bostonia gaudet 

Nostra Ministerio, seu cui tot scribere libros, 

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Non opus, aut labor est qui Magnalia Christi 
Americana refers scriptura plurima. Nonne 
Dignus es agnoscare inter Magnalia Christi ? 
Vive Liber totique Orbi Miracula Monstres 
Quae sunt extra Orbem. Cottone, in saecula vive; 
Et duni Mundus erit vivat tua Fama per Orbem." 



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